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1. Certificate for a French Médaille Militaire awarded to German Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.5
Date:
commemoration: approximately 1942-1944 August 18
issue: 1960 May
…, Lucie, survived in hiding and later immigrated to the United States. Margot married, and later she and her husband immigrated to the US. In 1960, the…
2. Certificate for the French Resistance and Cross of War medals awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter
2011.160.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.1
Date:
issue: 1960 May
commemoration: 1944 August 07-1944 August 18
…, Lucie, survived in hiding and later immigrated to the United States. Margot married, and later she and her husband immigrated to the US. In 1960, the…
3. Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation
2014.461.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.461.4
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 September
use: 1941 July-1945
… survivors. He met Ita Rozenczwajg (1918-2010). She had survived by living under an assumed identity as a non-Jewish Polish person and was sent to Germany as a…
4. Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.8
Date:
emigration: 1939-1949
… August 14, Japan surrendered to the US. The Kupinski family learned that Slawa’s brothers had survived in France, but that her parents were killed in the…
5. Award certificate issued postwar with 6 medals to a Dutch resistance leader
1990.23.240.1-.2 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.23.240.2
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May-1945 May
… camp. She knew she was going to be deported and believed she would not survive. Piet helped look for Alijda and went to Westerbork, where he learned that…
6. Handmade 1944 calendar made by a hidden Dutch Jewish girl for her brother
2003.155.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.155.7
Date:
creation: 1944 January-1944 February
use: 1944 February-1944 June
… 30, 1944. Her brother Louis survived the Holocaust in hiding.…
7. Brief note belonging to a hidden child
2009.204.38 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.38
Date:
creation: approximately 1942-approximately 1944
… terminal TB patients. Salomon put Ilona in the care of a wealthy Jewish couple, the Fishmans, who had survived the war in hiding. Salomon, still a dedicated…